Slate recently ran this article, explaining to people what the little arrow on the gas gauge means. I was pretty surprised to find that the author only found one out of ten people he asked knew what it was for. Maybe I'm jaded by the Jalopnik readership. And maybe I'm surprised the answer, "it shows what side the gas…

Slate has set up an online poll to guess how much General Motors' shares will trade for. The current average is $26, making GM worth a third of Ford. We suggest you head over and submit a few $200 "predictions."

Slate continues to follow its secret tagline of "Contrarianism is almost as good as actual wisdom," asserting it's "not so bad" for cars to run on software making them out of our control. Fun faux Slate headline guessing game below.

I cannot believe I'm about to engage in a toolerific blogosphere tête-à-tête with John Swansburg on Transformers mythos — but whatever, I must defend an egregious display of fan-boy cultural blasphemy. Swansburg tries to provide a compare and contrast on the 1986 Transformers movie and the 2007 Transformers movie…

We think that we would like being an IIHS crash-test worker if the institute's name didn't have "Insurance" in the name. That stuff gives us the jibblies. But we like breaking things (cars, hearts, Tom Petty and Johnny Thunders records, etc.), and with all the new models to be tested every year, there's a lot to…

We're big fans of Seth Stevenson's Advertising Deconstructed column on Slate, which never fails to hilariously dress down today's ad lions, and the reeking media miasma they call campaigns. This week, he trains his keyboard on Jaguar's "Gorgeous" campaign, which is perhaps one of the most asinine bids for buyers since…

Slate's Daniel Gross picks up the GM-vs.-labor problem and mulls it over for a bit, pointing out that because unlike Delphi, the automaker still has something to lose, it therefore needs to be more careful than the bankrupt supplier if it wants to avert a strike which it desperately seems to want to. He also notes…